How Google looks at these “Big” settlements… (The state AG’s pretend it’s a big deal.)

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/04/google_privacy_lawsuit_settlement/

Google burns few hours of profit to disappear location privacy lawsuit

Google will pay $85 million to settle a privacy lawsuit that accused the internet behemoth of deceiving netizens regarding its harvesting of people's location data and using this personal info to rake in billions of dollars in advertising revenue.

Podcast.

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/05/intercepted-china-surveillance/

INSIDE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT’S GROWING SURVEILLANCE STATE

This week on Intercepted: investigative reporter Mara Hvistendahl speaks with Josh Chin and Liza Lin, reporters for the Wall Street Journal, about their new book, “Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control.” In their book, Chin and Lin break down the international implications of the Chinese government’s adoption of surveillance technology. Hvistendahl, Chin, and Lin discuss techno-dystopia in the pandemic era, what happens when there are no checks on algorithms, and how Western companies helped the Chinese government build the surveillance state from day one.

(Transcript coming soon.)

What the players are thinking about AI?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkwqb/meta-ai-chief-publishes-paper-on-creating-autonomous-artificial-intelligence

Meta's AI Chief Publishes Paper on Creating ‘Autonomous’ Artificial Intelligence

Yann LeCun, machine learning pioneer and head of AI at Meta, lays out a vision for AIs that learn about the world more like humans in a new study.

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf

Perspective.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252525729/Forrester-US-set-to-dominate-AI-enterprise-software-market

Forrester: US set to dominate AI enterprise software market

Analyst firm Forrester has predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming the biggest growth area across the software industry and will drive mainstream adoption of AI in business.

… In a blog discussing the report, Forrester analyst Michael O’Grady said: “AI has great potential across knowledge and data intelligence, security and cyber security, process optimisation and automation, AI tools and database, health and drug discovery, customer and human capital management, and other categories.

Status update…

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/travel/customs-kiosks-facial-recognition.html

Whatever Happened to Those Self-Service Passport Kiosks at Airports?

More than 80 percent of all travelers entering the U.S. are now verified by facial recognition. The loss of older, seemingly more convenient methods has many perplexed. And then there are the privacy issues.

Perspective.

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-machines-cant-do-yet-in-real-work-settings/

What Machines Can’t Do (Yet) in Real Work Settings

… In this article, we use those examples to illustrate our list of AI-enabled activities that still require human assistance. These are activities where organizations need to continue to invest in human capital and where practitioners can expect job continuity for the immediate future.